Category: Technology

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas! I’m sure most of you will be receiving electronics from Santa tonight, spending a decent amount of money on audio, visual, or computing equipment. Regarding the visual aspect, more specifically TV reception, here’s something worth building. For the last bunch of months I wasn’t too pleased with my cable provider’s services. Another price increase in August,

After a one-year delay due to the floods in June 2013, the St. Patrick’s Island pedestrian bridge finally opened today. I was in the first group to make the first ceremonial crossing behind Mayor Nenshi. Currently the bridge links Bridgeland and East Village, but will provide an access point for St. Patrick’s Island once the new park is completed. The

Upon leaving the Canadian Museum of Making, I realized there was still time to take in the grand finale of Beakerhead 2014, the Catharsis Catapult competition. The competition was held in the west field at WinSport. Here are some photographic highlights from the competition and a very short video. This concludes the coverage of Beakerhead 2014. See you at

Welcome to part 2 of the Canadian Museum of Making tour. From the area that I like to call the “grand hall”, the tour continues thru a hallway adorned with numerous pieces of belt-driven machining equipment. All pieces of equipment look like they are fully operational. You really do feel like you are in a Victorian era manufacturing facility. This

A few weeks prior to Beakerhead, I saw on the Facebook page a posting for one of the events happening on the very last day of the festival. It was an exclusive tour for 25 people to the Canadian Museum of Making in Cochrane. I immediately signed-up but got word that I was wait-listed. I had known about this private

The sun set on Little Big Street, and the flames and neon lit up the night on the Stampede parking lots by the Saddledome. Here’s a bunch of photos and videos from Beakernight. Click on the thumbnails to access the photo galleries. Gallery 1 Gallery 2 Momentum Drummers filling the night with cool beats… iLuminate performing to three songs… iLuminate

Little Big Street and Beakernight were probably the highlights of Beakerhead. Beakernight took place at the same location as Little Big Street, but I got there early to take a number of photos while the sun was still out. The highlights included: Gee Gnome – a fire spewing gnome. Hippo Love – a local art car that was built for

A giant fire spewing octopus on the chassis of a 1973 Ford 250 pick-up truck – this is El Pulpo Mecanico! At 25 feet tall, it uses 200 gallons of propane during each show. Just one giant cam in the middle spins and controls the movement of the tentacles, eyeballs, and mouths, yup, four mouths to be exact. Each flame

On day 3 of Beakerhead, I took in three events around the city. Some driving around and a trip on the C-Train was required but I was able to get in all that I wanted to see, while avoiding the dreaded Calgary rush hour traffic. Festo’s RC Flying Jellyfish Demonstration at The Calgary Zoo First up was Festo’s demonstration of

NASA announced today the recipients of contracts for crew transports up to the International Space station. The recipients were SpaceX and Boeing. SpaceX has already unveiled their crew capsule a few months ago, dubbed the Dragon V2. I still would like to see Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser completed as it’s maybe the closest thing to a Star Trek shuttle